Poor Bessy (The Parting)

DESCRIPTION: Poor Bessy was a sailor's bride." The sailo sails off for a year and returns to find his wife and child buried in the old church yard
AUTHOR: Isaac Pocock (source: Frank-JollySailorsBold)
EARLIEST DATE: 1837 (_The Free and Easy Convivial Songster_)
KEYWORDS: grief love marriage home parting return death baby wife sailor
FOUND IN: US(NE)
REFERENCES (3 citations):
Frank-JollySailorsBold 196, "Poor Bessy (The Parting)" (2 texts, 2 tunes)
Dime-Song-Book #1, p. 63, "Poor Bessy Was a Sailor's Wife" (1 text)
ADDITIONAL: _The Free and Easy Convivial Songster_ (London: O. Hodgson, 1837 ("Digitized by Internet Archive")), unpaginated, "Poor Bessy Was a Sailor's Wife" ("Poor Bessy was a ailor' wife, And he was off to sea") (1 text)
Roud #13808
NOTES [14 words]: NOTES: For another Pocock song, see "The True Yankee Sailor (True British Sailor)." - RBW
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File: FJSB196

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